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California Institute of Technology

2023 Track & Field

Adnan Contractor

  • Height 6-0
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Watchung, N.J.
  • High School Watchung Hills Regional
  • Events Distance

Biography

Research and STEM Activities

Interned with CitiGroup in Summer 2022... Studied oxidative stress due to HZE radiation at Rutgers University Cancer Institute, 2016... Generated visualization models of plasma flow in tokamaks at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, 2018-2019... Studied thermionic energy conversion in mobile devices at Yale University, 2017... Worked at Stanford School of Medicine in summer 2021 and used style transfer models to improve synthetic image quality of PC-MRI images.

Prior to Caltech

Academic Honors: First Prize, Health Category, Conrad Spirit of Innovation Challenge... Published a book titled Banana Physics.

Athletic Honors: Coaches Award, Cross Country 2017... Varsity Captainship, Cross Country 2018.

Personal

Son of Sohail and Sarah... Likes Caltech because the students are treated as research scientists, mathematicians, physicists, and colleagues... Favorite part about Caltech Athletics is the coaching staff.

Historical Player Information

  • 2022Junior

    Distance
    6'0"

  • 2023Senior

    Distance
    6'0"